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James Gates Percival

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Theirs is no vulgar sepulchre--green sods
Are all their monument, and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles
Or the eternal pyramids.
--
"The Graves of the Patriots," first published in the United States Literary Gazette, Vol. 2 (1825).

 
James Gates Percival

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